Web Directory

» A Survey of Digital Aggregation Services.
   Martha Brogan provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters and then evaluates them more fully from the perspective of an informed user.
   http://www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan/

» Annotated Bibliography of Digital Library Related Sources
   List of references originally compiled by Steven Ketchpel at Stanford University, forms part of a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science.
   http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/digital.library.html

» Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library
   Proceedings of the international conference organised by UKOLN, held 16th and 17th June 1997, London. Full text provides broad historical perspective.
   http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/blri078/content/

» Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
   BASE provides integrated access to distributed collections of various type and format (digitised collections, institutional repositories, pre-print-servers, electronic journals etc.) by applying search engine technology in the context of scholarly search-
   http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de

» British Columbia Digital Library
   Guide to full-text collections and resources, including software tools and standards by the British Columbia Community Networks Association; also dedicated to the digitization and storage of local publications.
   http://bcdlib.tc.ca

» Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources
   A report by Louis A. Pitschmann that identifies and synthesizes existing practices used in developing collections of free third-party Internet resources that support higher education and research.
   http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub98/contents.html

» Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
   An alliance of Canadian libraries and organizations to promote, coordinate and facilitate the development of collections and services. Contains general information with links to members' projects and further resources; also available in French.
   http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/cidl-ef/2007-09-28/cidl/index-e.html

» Center for the Study of Digital Libraries
   Established in 1995 at Texas A&M University and builds upon research developed in the Hypermedia Research Laboratory established in 1987. Includes research, publications, events and course information.
   http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/

» Colorado Digitization Project
   A collaborative initiative to provide access to the unique collections of local archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums. Includes guidelines, standards, resources and links to further information.
   http://www.cdpheritage.org

» DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (FP5)
   An initiative funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies 5th Framework Programme (IST-FP5) to support and encourage research activities.
   http://delos-noe.iei.pi.cnr.it/

» DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (FP6)
   An initiative funded by the European Union's Information Society Technologies 6th Framework Programme to integrate and coordinate ongoing research activities within Europe and disseminate knowledge.
   http://www.delos.info/

» DIGI-EVAL
   Mailing list to support the eVALUEd project and enable discussion of issues concerning the evaluation of electronic library initiatives.
   http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/digi-eval.html

» DIGLIB Mailing List
   For digital library researchers, developers and librarians, hosted by the IFLA.
   http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/diglib.htm

» DLib Forum and DLib Magazine
   The forum hosts a working group on metrics, a test suite for online research and list of further references. The web magazine is published monthly and covers news, innovation and research.
   http://www.dlib.org/

» DPE: Digital Preservation Europe
   Addresses the need to improve coordination, cooperation and consistency in current activities to secure effective preservation of digital materials.
   http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/

» DSpace: Durable Digital Depository
   A joint project between MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard to provide stable long-term storage for the intellectual output of MIT faculty and researchers using open-source software. Mission, policy, technology description and download, implementations, new
   http://www.dspace.org/

» Desire Project
   Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education. This project ran from July 1998 until June 2000 and was a collaboration between partners at ten institutions from four European countries. Publications, handbook and development
   http://www.desire.org/

» DigiCULT Forum
   Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is a 30-month European funded project to monitor and assess existing and emerging technologies to benefit the cultural heritage sector between March 2002 and August 2004. Includes reports, current awareness, events and links to
   http://www.digicult.info

» Digilib 2003
   Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries, the Conference on Users in the Electronic Information Environments is held in Espoo, Finland.
   http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/finelib/digilib/

» Digital Cultural Content Forum
   A forum that seeks to assume a leadership role in disseminating practice and building consensus amongst individuals and agencies active in digitization and online dissemination of cultural heritage resources.
   http://www.culturalcontentforum.org/

» Digital Cultural Heritage Community
   Provides materials from East Central Illinois museums and libraries in support of elementary school social studies curricula, as well as workshops and training materials to help teachers integrate materials into class exercises.
   http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/dchc/

» Digital Curation Centre (DDC)
   A UK-based centre to support expertise and practice in data curation and digital preservation across communities of practice.
   http://www.dcc.ac.uk/

» Digital Himalaya
   A pilot project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region.
   http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/

» Digital Libraries Initiative
   Supporting research and projects furthering the development of digital libraries. Includes links to projects, tools, and resources.
   http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/national.htm

» Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects
   Collection of links provided by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
   http://www.ifla.org/II/diglib.htm

» Digital Library Competence Center (DLibCenter)
   The center provides specific user communities with access to advanced technologies, services, expertise and knowledge with courses for librarians, archivists, scholars and technicians. The site is available in English and Italian.
   http://dlibcenter.iei.pi.cnr.it/

» Digital Library Federation
   Developing the means of creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials.
   http://www.diglib.org/

» Digital Library Initiatives
   Planning information, project examples, publications and links at North Carolina State University.
   http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/index.html

» Digital Preservation Coalition
   Aims to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK. Includes background information on the coalition, their program of work, details of their administration, how interested parties can participate, and the full-text of the Preservation of Digi
   http://www.dpconline.org/

» Digital Services Project
   Program documents from the National Library of Australia.
   http://www.nla.gov.au/dsp/

» Digital collections and programs: Library functions
   Building digital collections at the Library of Congress.
   http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

» Informedia-II Digital Video Library
   Research at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization.
   http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/

» KCL Digital Consultancy Service (KDCS)
   Established at King's College London in September 2003, KDCS carries out research and provides fee-based consultancy services in the area of digitisation and digital resource management. Includes project examples, consultancy information and research publ
   http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/

» King's Digital Consultancy Services
   Provides expertise and consultants for the creation and management of digital resources to museums, libraries and cultural organisations in the UK.
   http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/

» LOCKSS Permanent Publishing on the Web
   Allows individual libraries to safeguard their community's access to Web content. Project funded by Stanford University, The National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems.
   http://lockss-docs.stanford.edu/

» Minnesota Digital Library Project
   An initiative to assist archives, historical societies, and libraries digitize and provide coordinated access to valuable information resources reflecting the cultural heritage of Minnesota.
   http://www.mndigital.org/

» Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments: A National Science Foundation/British Library Funded Study
   Research project to investigate the nature, manifestations, and behavior of successive users in digital environments, and to derive criteria for use in the design of information retrieval interfaces and systems supporting successive searching behavior.
   http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april98/04spink.html

» NINCH Guide to Good Practice
   guidance in the digital representation and management of cultural heritage materials by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.
   http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/

» NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative
   Describes the Digital Libraries Initiative and focuses on how management can implement it.
   http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07griffin.html

» National Digital Library Program
   Program information and resources for the Library of Congress digitization programs.
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/lcndlp.html

» Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC)
   Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory. Project areas include Human-Document Interaction (HDI), Natural Language Theory and Technology (NLTT), Quantitative Content Analysis, Sparrow Web, Statistical Pattern and Image Analysis, and User Interface
   http://www.parc.com/

» Parity Computing
   Communications company based in San Diego, focused on digital library technologies including complete turn-key solutions and customized services. Main clients include IEEE, Springer-Verlag, and ACM.
   http://www.paritycomputing.com/web/index.html

» Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media (Paradigm)
   A JISC-funded project of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester to produce an online workbook on Digital Private Papers of use to libraries and archives in preserving digital research materials.
   http://www.paradigm.ac.uk

» Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI)
   Hosted by the National Library of Australia and directed by an international advisory group, PADI provides access to a wide range of digital preservation resources.
   http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

» Realizing the Hybrid Library
   Paper discusses the hybrid library model of information provision, outlining a number of eLib funded projects and covering key technological and managerial issues.
   http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october98/10pinfield.html

» Research Institute on Digital Libraries (RIDL)
   Institute based at the University of Middlesex working on various funded projects concerning the design and use of Digital Libraries.
   http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/ridl/index.html

» Russian Digital Libraries Journal
   Electronic journal containing information on research and use of digital libraries.
   http://www.elbib.ru/index.phtml?page=elbib/eng/journal

» Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries
   Interdisciplinary environment designed to address research and educational issues relevant to development, understanding and implementation.
   http://scils.rutgers.edu/RDLDL/

» Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB)
   Section 6.2 of the list of references by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. based at the University of Houston Libraries.
   http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

» Selection Criteria for Web-Based Resources in a Science and Technology Library Collection
   Article discusses reasons to include Internet-based resources in a science and technology library collection.
   http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/98-spring/article2.html

» Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project
   Documents and information on the design and implementation of the infrastructure and services needed for collaboratively creating, disseminating, sharing and managing information.
   http://diglib.stanford.edu/

» The development of digital libraries for blind and visually impaired people, Ariadne Issue 30
   Report on a selection of papers presented in Washington at the 2001 IFLA pre-conference for the Section of Libraries for the Blind (SLB).
   http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue30/ifla/

» Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (Ticer BV)
   Centre based at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, whose primary activities include consultancy and organising an annual international summer school, and other courses and seminars.
   http://www.ticer.nl/

» Touch and Turn
   A Swedish company based in Stockholm that delivers software solutions for virtual browsing with touch screen technology, publishes rare books and develops Internet based services for mediation.
   http://www.touchandturn.com/

» UIUC Digital Library Testbed
   Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
   http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/idli/idli.htm

» UKOLN Metadata Group - Selection Criteria for Quality Controlled Information Gateways
   Report describes methods and tools created to assist the staff of subject gateways to develop and maintain their quality control systems.
   http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/quality/

» Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies.
   The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) publication No 120 provides a summary and analysis of more than 200 recent research publications that focus on the use of electronic library resources, published between 1995 and 2003.
   http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub120abst.html

» Washington State Library Digital Best Practices
   A guide to major decision points in planning a digital project, ranging from administrative factors to technology concerns to financial management.
   http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/best.htm

» WebArchivist
   A research and software development group based at the University of Washington and the SUNY Institute of Technology that works with scholars, librarians and archivists interested in preserving and analyzing materials created for and distributed on the We
   http://www.webarchivist.org/

» eVALUEd
   Project based at the University of Central England to develop a transferable evaluation model for e-library developments, which began in December 2001 and completed in May 2004. There is a link to the evaluation toolkit from the homepage.
   http://www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/evalued/